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Category Archives: Political Correctness
The Ballad of Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch, particularly as played by Gregory Peck, was and is a paragon of virtue, a liberal’s wet dream of a southern gentleman who is… just like them. The publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has, um, problematized … Continue reading
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Progress in Silicon Valley
The gender equality bandwagon careens around another corner. NPR reports that “Facebook’s New Logo Is A Visual Nod To Gender Equality“. “A woman designer at Facebook recently updated the company’s iconic “friends” logo,” reads the byline, “making the woman’s silhouette … Continue reading
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Duke Boys, Out!
The P.C. Police are the new Boss Hogg. From The Hollywood Reporter: TV Land has pulled reruns of Dukes of Hazzard in light of the recent uproar over the Confederate flag, which is emblazoned on the roof of the show’s … Continue reading
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Slate JAPCAT
We can check off another entry in the JAPCAT phenom (i.e., the niche journalistic phenomenon of the past year wherein progressive Jewish liberals, when they themselves find themselves on the receiving end of Politically Correct antics, begin to question such … Continue reading
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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Forced to Resign
Here is but the latest victim of the vicissitudes of an increasingly institutionalized Political Correctness: LONDON (AP) — A week ago, Tim Hunt was a well-known Nobel Prize winner who was promoting science education throughout Europe and the world. Today … Continue reading
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Brave New World: NYC Elite Prep School Edition
The most hilarious paragraph from a piece on an elite NYC progressive school’s attempt at the great social engineering elimination of racism: That December, the head of the school, Damian Fernandez, who in a meeting with me identified himself as … Continue reading
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Drowning in Altruism
Andrew Joyce has an excellent piece over at Occidental Observer, where — through the lens of the current migration crisis in the Mediterranean — he explores the white self-hatred and pathological altruism fueling the West’s demographic suicide. Of the standard … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Immigration, Political Correctness
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“Reading Racist Literature”
The New Yorker gives another airing to ‘triggers’ and ‘microaggressions’, this one being penned by an English professor of Turkish descent (“Reading Racist Literature“): Of the many passages that gave me pause when I first read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” in … Continue reading
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AJC vs. Trevor Noah
The American Jewish Committee (“Global Jewish Advocacy”) wants Trevor Noah yanked as the next Daily Show host. The AJC was fine with Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz as host, oddly enough (ahem), but with Noah… nah, not so much: [T]he American Jewish … Continue reading
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Jim Norton: “Trevor Noah Isn’t the Problem. You Are.”
Today’s JAPCAT episode surrounds Trevor Noah, the newly anointed host of The Daily Show. (Steve Sailer has a comprehensive post on it today.) Jim Norton is a great comedian (whom I’ve seen live) and cultural conservative. Writing in Time, Norton … Continue reading
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